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From timid beginnings the Carnegie show has now evolved into what is probably the most important showing of modernist pictures in the U. S. The Carnegie International no longer considers itself an agency for the discovery of unknown talent. Director Homer Saint-Gaudens and his associates have decided that there are plenty of other organizations dedicated to that purpose, that their job is to show the citizens of Pittsburgh the work of the best artists that they can assemble. This year in an exhibition of nearly 500 pictures only 30 places were left open for unsolicited works...
...Nicholai Borodin, curater of fishes at the Peabody Museum. When the fish is frozen, it goes into a state which corresponds very much to that of an animal's hibernation, except that the fish at this time does not breathe at all, but is kept alive by some unknown vital force. How long the fish can be kept alive in a frozen state, Dr. Borodin has not yet found...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42ND, St., New York City...
...career has neglected to find time for those elements of romance which seem to be conducive to full artistic expression. Driven to desperation by the indifference of a paternal, middle-aged fiance, the comely vocalist throws her cap over the windmill, seeking solace in the arms of an unknown admirer, who is at first disillusioned by the young lady's forwardness, but cannot help revealing his love and the fact that he is an American impresario with a contract for the singer...
...houses. In the course of agitation for the ban's removal, Jean Van Evera, woman's editor of the Daily Northwestern, pored over the back files of the student publication. As a result of her search, Editress Van Evera was able to give the world a hitherto unknown bit of Willardiana...